Chap. 140.—An ACT to amend and re-enact section 8 of chapter 415 of the Acts
‘of the General Assembly of 1932, the said chapter being an act establishing
the secondary system of State highways and relieving the localities from
further duty or liability concerning the maintenance of such highways, et cetera,
approved March 31, 1932, the said section being in relation to the establish-
ment of new roads to be added to the secondary system of State highways,
and the payment for rights of way for such roads. [S B 74]

Approved March 16, 1934

1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia, That section
eight of chapter four hundred and fifteen of the Acts of the General
Assembly of nineteen hundred and thirty-two, the said chapter being
an act establishing the secondary system of State highways and re-
lieving the localities from further duty or liability concerning the
maintenance of such highways, et cetera, approved March thirty-first,
nineteen hundred and thirty-two, be amended and re-enacted so as to
read as follows:

Section 8. The local road authorities shall, however, continue to
have the powers now vested in them for the establishment of new roads
in their respective counties, to become parts of the secondary system
of State highways within such counties; provided, however, that the
State Highway Commissioner shall be made a party to any proceeding
before the local road authorities for the establishment of any such
road, and provided further that when any such board or commissior
appointed by the board of supervisors to view a proposed road and
shall award damages for the right of way for the same to be paid in
money, it may be paid by the board of supervisors or other governing
body of the county out of the general county levy funds; and, further
that no expenditure by the State shall be required upon any new roac
so established by the local road authorities, except as may be approvec
by the State Highway Commissioner. The jurisdiction and procedure
for abandonment of roads in the secondary system of State highways
shall remain in the local road authorities as now provided by law; pro
vided, however, that the State Highway Commissioner shall likewis«
be made a party to any such proceeding. The State Highway Commis:
sioner, by and with the approval of the State Highway Commission anc
the board of supervisors shall have power and authority to make sucl
changes in routes in, and addition to, the secondary system of Stat
highways from time to time, as the public safety or convenience ma‘
require.

That the service of any process or notice in any such proceeding:
upon the district engineer of the State Highway Department havin;
the supervision of maintenance and construction of highways in any
such county, shall be termed sufficient service on the State Highway
Commissioner.